Perhaps your app is only meant to be a basic, barebones editor - after all, you did compare it to macOS Preview - but I would argue that Microsoft Edge serves that role perfectly well.
#Free pdf annotator windows pdf
At the moment, the most important issues stopping this app from doing that seem to be related to the PDF engine (poor zoom rendering, slow loading, complete inability to handle huge files). I spent a lot of time on this because I'm really invested in finding a PDF annotator that inks faster than Drawboard, but it seems that nothing can replace it. For comparison, Drawboard can open the same file using about 600MB. The app consumed all of my RAM before crashing. At this point I realised the app's PDF engine seems to not be very robust, so just for kicks, I attempted to open a 211-page, 230MB PDF containing a coursebook I'd annotated in Drawboard over a semester of uni.As somebody with a pen-enabled device, I want to use this feature exactly 0 times, ever. Selecting the pen tools button ("Ink and draw") also enables touch-to-ink.The text annotation mostly worked great, but for some reason the Arial font looked a bit squished (the other fonts were fine).In general, I would prefer the lasso experience to work more similarly to OneNote, which has it nailed down. It also wasn't immediately obvious that you had to right click to move selections around - I'd prefer this be a left click, as I can't think of a scenario where I'd select something but then immediately want to draw straight through it (also, requiring a right click to move means that you can't move selections with your finger, which is unintuitive IMO). I was surprised to find that text objects couldn't be lasso'd. Lasso selection was really fast and selected things properly (unlike Drawboard!), but there was no way to delete lasso'd objects.While it's not functionality I use in a PDF annotator very often, trying to print my test PDF resulted in RAM usage skyrocketing beyond 1.5GB (!!!) and getting stuck loading infinitely until I force quit the app.This could be quite annoying if you needed to sign something at the bottom of a really long document (hopefully you wouldn't need to zoom in to do that signature, and hopefully it opens. A less important zoom issue - the percentage zoom level isn't displayed, which I found frustrating as I'm used to jumping straight to 200% for any annotation.While I am using a mere Core m3 Surface, Drawboard on the same machine zooms with excellent performance, and renders text vectorised with no lag at all - and Drawboard is definitely a heavier, more featured app (and I definitely have PDFs way longer than 36 pages. Text is seemingly being rendered like a bitmap, making it all pixelated and awful. After it's recovered, the zoomed PDF itself is of poor quality. I don't mean to use these words lightly, but zooming is just an awful experience right now - when I pinch to zoom the app freezes for up to several seconds (the higher the zoom level, and the more pages in the PDF, the longer the freeze).
#Free pdf annotator windows windows
Unlike a surprising number of PDF annotators on the Windows Store, your app has a universal Undo function, which is super useful and a personal requirement, as I make lots of mistakes.Hopefully more Windows Ink tools can be added in the future, such as the ruler and protractor.
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